David French

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1,367 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Aug

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The SkyePod · French Friday: Nerdfest 2026 · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

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I mean, you know, so you have a trans actor playing a man in the story that that changes the story. matched

because the story is the identity. matched

And that's sort of, in many ways, the heart of, that's what racism looks like, is that if you're gonna say, okay, the really salient factor for you matched

to do the reverse of the Martin Luther King formulation is the color of your skin, more so than the content of your character, or in the case of a beautiful actress here, the beauty of your, because she's the face that launched a thousand ships, rather than the beauty of the person, it's the color of the skin. matched

then you really are looking at the way in which a lot of racial and identity-based politics have warped to the right to such an extent that I do think it's not just clickbait. matched

I think these people are legitimately thinking that the actual manifestation of whatever they want to call conservatism or whatever they want to call this belief system, that the actual manifestation requires certain identities, right? matched

And in so doing, they are the flip side of the super hyper woke people. matched

You know, like the kind of person, there was a recent book excerpt in the Free Press about somebody, a philanthropist who said, don't apply for a grant unless you're a woman of color. matched

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In that circumstance, the identity becomes the single most important thing. matched

And everything else flows from that. matched

And that's what we have to realize in parts of the right, that identity is... matched

is for them if they got on a lie detector test like if they took a polygraph they would they would pass that they are genuinely angry about the identity of the actors right there's a horse that's scary there's a horseshoe theory thing going on here where the far right is mirroring the far left okay last thing on the odyssey do you think the enormous commercial success of this film matched

No, I don't think it will. matched

Sky, we're talking about the whole business model of an awful lot of people as well as their core worldview. matched

So if you combine two things at once, like a genuine, which I think is a vicious and malignant worldview with a business model, that's your perfect storm right there because somebody is feeling like they're doing well by their version of doing good and they're wedded to it. matched

So, you know, matched

We've had other situations where go woke, go broke has not panned out at all. matched

And they're completely undeterred. matched

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